\newenvironment as a shortcut

Question

I'm trying to shorten the environment

\begin{align}
    \begin{aligned}
         %equation
     \end{aligned}
 \end{align}

by using the \newenvironment command as follows

\newenvironment{eqq}
    {\begin{align}\begin{aligned}}
    {\end{aligned}\end{align}}

But when I use this new environment like

\begin{eqq}
    %equation
\end{eqq}

it gives me a bunch of error messages:

! Paragraph ended before \align was complete.\par

! Missing $ inserted.$

! Missing \endgroup inserted.\endgroup

! Display math should end with $$.\par

! LaTeX Error: \begin{align} on input line 163 ended by \end{document}.See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.Type H for immediate help.... \end{document}

I used \equation instead of \align, but this gives me a weird indent within the pdf.